Picomanagement, defined

Programmer pilot fish for a big electronics company has a small software fix for one of his programs.

“I needed to push an incremental update to one of my applications that solved a minor issue in how it reported data errors,” says fish. “It wasn’t a show stopper — in fact, the problem was so minor it had been around for several years and I only addressed the issue when I remembered it existed.

“So I told my manager I was going to submit the change to be pushed out through our corporate IT group, and she told me she wanted to